Under the Dome Podcast: Remembering Big Jim

On this week's episode of the Under the Dome Podcast the State Journal-Register's Bernard Schoenburg and Doug Finke work remotely to bring you the latest updates from the Illinois Statehouse and Illinois' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This week they reminisce about covering former Gov. James R. Thompson, the state's longest serving governor from 1977 to 1991, who passed away last Friday. They also take a look at the decision of the board of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol to remove the statues of Stephen Douglas and Pierre Menard from the Illinois Capitol grounds and what that means for the other artwork and statues inside the Capitol.

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Under the Dome Podcast: Remembering Big Jim is an episode from Under the Dome by Gannett Media / Consumer Products.

This episode is 12:09 long.

This episode was published on Aug 21, 2020.

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